travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.

But let me say this about learning experiences: they're weird. Or put it this way: what you learn from a learning experience is generally something else.

There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

Life is so very simple when you have no facts to confuse you.

It's easier to find a traveling companion than to get rid of one.

many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason, they then proceed rather selectively, wisely gathering whatever will bolster them or at least carry out the color scheme.